final fantasy 4- was interesting for the first few hours, then became a typically tedious/redundant rpg...didnt finish it

new super mario-the most boring and uncreative level design ever...got to world 5, didnt finish

animal crossing-amusing for a coupole weeks, but i havent checked my town since december

phantom hourglass-in the first dungeon...generic beginning, annoying touch screen only controls have me rather pessimistic, though im definitely gonna give it more time

trust me...i really really want to love the ds..i was hoping it was gonna be super nintendo 2...its just disapointed me so far...i welcome any recommendations that you think will change my mind... im not into redundant or generic games and thats all ive really come across

Since I can't get Chrono Trigger for my super nintendo, I will get it for my DS. woo woo.

Contra 4
Peggle
Mario Kart DS
Castlevania: Order Of Ecclessia (only Metroidvania I've ever liked)
Ouendan (japanese version of Elite Beat Agents, much more fun though)
The World Ends With You
those are all decent to great reasons to own a DS

disgaea ds, the most addictive game ever if you haven't played any other NiS games.

haha, haven't seen this in like a year!

Oh dude, your town is going to be completely overgrown. Expect all of your cutest catgirls to hate you and move away.

That said, my favoite Zelda games are 'A Link to the Past' and 'Wind Waker.'

I started with the original on NES and while it's a classic and all much better has come out since. 'Ocarina of Time' was good, but as they were just breaking into 3-D gaming it was particularly ugly and the environments and enemies were sparse. I didn't die a single time on my first playthrough.

'Wind Waker' introduced an infinitely better combat system, which was further honed for 'Twilight Princess.' And hey, I actually died a few times playing both. I really liked 'Twilight Princess,' the only thing it lacked for me was some of the difficulty (mainly in its puzzles and earlier bosses.) But I guess that's in part due to the fact that they were using it to bring Zelda to a new generation of gamers. Also, being a Zelda completist I of course by the end of the game had all of the heart container pieces and four bottles with fairies in them, which makes getting a Game Over even harder. I like it when the game REQUIRES you to get all of these things if you hope to survive, rather than making things easier for you by getting them. The next installment will offer more in the way of a challenge, hopefully. I'm hoping for some insanely difficult boss battles, the ones in which the boss doesn't become easy once you figure out the trick to defeating them.

I never played any of the Gameboy or DS Zelda games, having never owned any portable gaming system.

There was a part in Wind Waker that was so fucking hard for me. The part where you had to use the leaf and hit the tornado thing to sail over the water into the next "level." I must've fallen a dozen times.

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That sucks. I just played through Chrono Trigger last week. Fantastic game. I got a Super Nintendo for free and an absurd amount of games with it. I just started Pokemon Blue again so I won't be able to play anything else for a while. That game is worse than crack.

Although, back on subject, Zelda is quite possibly my favorite gaming series of all time. I played Link's Awakening the entire ride down to New Mexico on the bus.

Metroid 2 thrown in for awesomeness + original cartridge fact

Metroid II is amazing, too bad the last boss is so damn hard :(

A Link To The Past was the only Zelda game I ever played to the end.

I remember being to young for the original Zelda and just watching my brother play it till I got bored.

zelda is probably my favourite game series

1. majora's mask
2. twilight princess
3. a link to the past
4. phantom hourglass
5. ocarina of time
6. wind waker
7. link's awakening

Zelda is my favorite series. Followed by Mega Man.

Metroid II is the only Metroid I really spent a lot of time on. I think the SNES one looks like crap. And I never played the GC one.

If you look at the releases, and especially re-releases (and backwards compatability)... then Gameboy Advance is one of the greatest systems ever.

Super Metroid is the greatest game of all time.

the first GC metroid game was great, the second one just seemed shit, i played about 2 hours and was bored the whole way through, didn't play it again after that.

Metroid Prime 1 might be my favorite game of all time, along Ocarina Of Time
I enjoyed Metroid Prime 2 as well, though it's not near the awesomeness of the #1, it's still really good (and it includes the best videogame music ever in Underwater Torvus)
Metroid Prime 3 is fantastic as well.
It'd be 1 > 3 > 2
But overall, 1 > all

That may be, but I never got past not liking the way it looked. Not sure why.

You're missing out!

The music in that game........ oh my god!

I'll check it out at some point then. My current "must get" is still pretty long.